Project Description (the hook)

Gather ingredients from distant themed biomes and craft them together to find the long lost recipe. Make sure you
don’t craft a wrong recipe or you’ll be in trouble!
Gameplay
Game Mechanics
● 8 direction movement from a top down 3D perspective
● Gather ingredients
● Manage inventory
● Puzzle solving (successfully combining ingredients to a useful recipe)
● Time limit in each biome
● Guardian that gives a recipe clue
● Super special item in biomes
● Expanding recipe book based on successful combinations
Winning conditions
● Long Term: Find and make the long lost recipe
● Short Term: Reach and exit the room in time with all possible ingredients
Losing conditions
● Run out of time in a biome (get thrown back to hub without ingredients)
● Run out of ingredients to make a recipe that either opens a new biome or can be used to make the
long lost recipe
Gameplay Loop

Story
The player wakes up in the middle of their wizard tower with no recollection of how they got there and only an
incomplete spell book, a conjuring device (e.g. cauldron) and a strong sense that something has happened and they
were searching for the long lost recipe. Little do they know that the long lost recipe is the elixir of life (or so they
think). Once used, the elixir sends them back in time to the beginning, collapsed in their tower.
Art Style
1. Bright natural colours (plenty of vivid primary colours)
2. Midway point between cartoony and realistic
3. 3D models and environment but not super high resolution
4. Sense of wonder and fun but also mystery
Music and Sounds
1. Calming/soothing and low intensity
2. Light and airy ambient
3. Natural sound effects
o Walking on dirt/leaves/grass
o Water flowing and fire burning
Level example
Goal: Collect 3 Red Flowers, 2 Yellow Flowers, 3 stones

Useful materials
Asset list
● Graphics - Art
○ Actors
 ■ Player (Wizard)
■ 1 Big imposing Guardian per biome (Random selection from asset store?)
○ Environments
■ Hub (Tower)
● Portals to biomes (2D texture?)
● Bookshelves (2D texture?)
● Potion bottles (2D texture?)
● Forest Trees (2D texture?)
● Table cloth (2D texture?)
● Portal frame (3D model)
● Cauldron (3D model)
● Window (3D model)
● Book stand (3D model)
● Table (3D model)
● Books (3D model)
● Stone wall (3D model)
● Floor (3D model)
● Ceiling (3D model)
■ Biomes
● Forest
○ Exit Portal (2D texture?)
○ Poison Ivy (2D texture?)
○ Grass (2D texture?)
○ Mud (2D texture?)
○ Leaves (2D texture?)
○ Individual Trees (3D model)
○ Cluster of Trees (3D model)
○ Bushes (3D model)
○ Large Rock(s) (3D model)
○ Small Rocks (3D model)
○ Deer (3D model)
○ Rabbit (3D model)
○ Badger (3D model)
○ Birds (3D model)
○ Portal Frame (3D model)
○ Flowers (3D model)
○ Stream of water (3D model/Particles?)
○ Tree stump (3D model/Particles?)
● Desert
○ Exit Portal (2D texture?)
○ Desert boulder (3D model)
○ Desert stone (3D model)
○ Portal Frame (3D model)
○ Cactus
○ Palm tree
○ Water pool
○ Scorpion
 ○ Camel
○ Snake
● Sea
○ Exit Portal (2D texture?)
○ Portal Frame (3D model)
● Snow/Ice
○ Exit Portal (2D texture?)
○ Portal Frame (3D model)
○ Collectible Items
■ Stones (All Biome)✅(type: stones in AW)
■ Mushrooms (Forest Biome)✅
■ Twigs (Forest Biome)✅
■ Red Flowers (Forest Biome)✅
■ Coal (Forest Biome)✅(type: coal in AW)
■ Apples (Forest Biome)✅(type:apple in AW)
■ Snail (Forest Biome)✅
■ Turnip (Forest Biome)✅
■ Nut and Bolt (Forest Biome)✅(type: nut and bolt in AW)
■ Bones (Desert Biome)✅
■ Tumbleweed (Desert Biome)✅
■ Desert blossom/cactus flower (Desert Biome)✅
■ Gears (Desert Biome)✅
■ Aloe plant (Desert Biome) (type:aloe in AW)
■ Grass tuft (Desert Biome) (type: grass in AW)
■ Rope (Desert Biome)
■ Icicle (Ice Biome) (type: Icicle in AW)
■ Crab (Sea Biome) (type: crab in AW)
■ Yellow Flowers (Forest Biome) (type: Desert marigold in AW)
■ Firefly (Forest Biome)✅
■ Butterfly (Forest Biome)✅
■ Frog (Forest Biome)(type: frog in AW)
■ Lily Pad (Forest Biome)(type: lily pad in AW)
■ Vines (Forest Biome)(type: Vines in AW)
■ Dragonfly (Desert Biome)✅
■ Crystal (Ice Biome)✅
■ Coral (Ice and Sea Biome)✅(type: coral in AW)
■ Feather (No Biomes)✅
■ Blue Flowers (All Biomes) (type: blue iris in AW)
■ Cookie (Forest Biome) (type: cookie in AW)
■ Bagel (Dessert Biome) (type: bagel in AW)
■ Ice crystal (Ice Biome)✅
■ Glowing crystal (No Biomes) (cant get those)
■ Antler (No Biomes)✅ (or type:antler in AW)
○ UI
■ Main menu
■ Crafting grid
■ Biome Timer
 ■ Inventory screen
■ Font
● Graphics - Animation
○ Player walking
○ Player collecting ingredients
○ Player interacting with cauldron
○ Player interacting with guardian
○ Guardian interacting with player
○ Ingredients sparkle
○ Crafting recipe (zoom into crafting grid?)
○ Successful craft
○ Failed craft
○ Open portal
○ Birds flying
○ Frogs jumping
● Graphics - Technical
○ Resolution:
● Audio
○ (See here)
Spell recipes
(See here)
Resources
● OpenGameAssets
● Turbosquid
● Sketchfab
● GooglePoly
● Itch.io
● Kenny

Reference Art
Look and feel
Perspective similar to Zelda Links Awakening and The Sword of Ditto (top down but 3D)
Conjuring vessels
Portals
Phials, bottles and jars
Decoration

Collectible objects
Environmental obstacles

Reference Audio
Jingles
Success
Gameplay Loop (detailed)